Obey Your Master

Title. It's a verse from a Metallica song i heard tonight on the radio. Repeated indefinitely, could not believe my ears. Heard the song before most likely. It was a time i wasn't paying attention to this kinda music, it was only after i bought my guitar that i "discover it".

I was  listening on the radio in the parking lot at Ilani when i saw the indicator of my charger showing 12 V. It was then when i got worried and started the engine. The indicator would have normally gone to 14 for a couple of minutes and then, as the battery was charged enough, would go down to 12.7 or something. Smart charging system. Talking about smart charging system. Will i ever live to see a car other than electric with an indicator showing percentage of charging of the battery, like the smartphones have.

Tonight the indicator stayed at 14 volts for half hour or the whole time the motor was idling basically telling the voltage of the alternator, as the battery was partially out of circuit or not charging.

After i put in the new Exide battery i checked the connectors a few times and since they stayed tightened i gave up checking on those. 

Also during last couple of trips i didn't have any tools in the cars, including those for installing a spare wheel. I just forgot as i used those tools to fix the brakes on the truck.

So i didn't go to check on those cause it was useless. I stayed in the car and continued to listen to music and drink and they started a whole show around my car. One guy went and bent to tightened his shoes laces next to exhaust. I declared several times before. This car because it has a high efficiency engine that runs at a higher temperature than others puts out some small but detectable amounts of ammonia.

Other two cars came (room was made by others) and they started their own shows. Too tired to write about.

Finally i stopped the engine and went inside thinking to get some food. However it was after 11:30 and they just closed all fast food places. And then Angela decided it was time to leave.

On the interstate bridge i was adjusting the cruise control for "welcome to Oregon" speed (which is 50 because of narrow lanes and little shoulder + 10 tolerated by Police, whatever, they don't enforce it these days anymore) (it turns to 55 in a couple of miles), when i saw with my own eyes the speedometer going up real fast (never thought this car can accelerate like this) to 70 and beyond all by itself, when i hit the brakes and that process stopped. The car has a "drive by wire" throttle which means the throttle is controlled by computer and doesn't have any mechanical cable hooked to acceleration pedal.

Got home and there was a party on the alley waiting for me of course to check the battery which i did and the positive connector was moving around and the nut was 1/8 turns loose. Like the wheel of the big white SUV that stopped next to me while i was there with the engine running that was turned 1/8 turns to the left, meaning of course i'm a commie.

This is proof that these guys can do whatever they want with me around here. I only saw this at Ilani, where i thought i had these kinda problems before. Yesterday at Indian Head i was listening to the radio for hours and battery didn't get discharged.